Change Light Color in UScript not reflected in environment

[hooli]

Hi folks,

I am trying to have a teleporter change the color of a Light actor. I am able to find the actor, and I can even read the before and after values of the color change.. however, the light does not seem to actually change color. Do I need to somehow call a "refresh" or "re-render"? (This is for UT2k4, but guessing the methods are the same in Unreal 22X).

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			// secret location is next, change light color
			foreach AllActors( class 'Light', L )
			if( string(L.tag)~=GoalLight && L!=Self )
			{
				Lights[i] = L;
				Other.Instigator.ClientMessage(L.Name); //correctly finds "Light0"
				Other.Instigator.ClientMessage(L.LightHue); //correctly shows "before value"
				L.LightBrightness = GoalLightBrightness;
				L.LightHue = GoalLightHue;
				L.LightSaturation = GoalLightSaturation;
				Other.Instigator.ClientMessage("now");
				Other.Instigator.ClientMessage(L.LightHue); // correctly shows "after value", but no physical change...
				i++;
				if ( i > arraycount(Lights) )
					break;
			}

[hooli]

Update: I was able to get this to work using TriggerLight instead of Light. Some online reading was mentioning Lights are bStatic and TriggerLights are not.

[Hellkeeper]

Probably because lights are static while triggerlights are dynamic lights, which means they only cast basic lighting.
Static lights can't change at all during gameplay and are baked into the lightmaps.
You can figure it out because triggerlights cast no shadows (their light goes through walls, movers and actors).